Blog o cestovaní nielen po Japonsku / Travel blog

6. June 2014

2. jún – Shingu

EN:The town of Shingu happened to be rather unplanned stop, after the early morning visit of fish market in Katsuura I still had quite a lot of time before I wanted to go back to Osaka. Therefore I decided to take the local train to Shingu, where you can find one of the three Kumano shrines, Kumano Hayatama Taisha. It’s a sister shrine of the the one I visited the day before, the third one was out of my reach, being too far from my planned route. Shingu is not very interesting town, I believe its good times were long gone – the other tourist spots are the ruins of Shingu Castle and Kumano Kodo pilgrimage route, but I didn’t have time for that one, of course. So basically, it was just a short visit, I walked across the town, took some pictures and hopped on the express back to Osaka. A little advice – if you take the Limited Express Kuroshio train on your way back to Osaka, take the seat on the left, you can see all the nice sea views at the railway is just next to it. It takes less than 4 hours to get back to Tennoji station in Osaka, so prepare for a long journey.